Bright planets both east and west
Spring is in the air, with the hours of darkness available for stargazing slowly starting to shrink. But at the same time the weather is warming up, which is always a welcome change.
The innermost planet, (mag. 0.1, dia. 7.0”, Sep. 15), begins September fairly high (for Mercury at least) in the western evening sky, with Venus higher above it. As the month progresses the planet
